Drum Journey Meditations

These guided meditations allow you to connect to your essence and inner wisdom to find new inspiration and new ways of looking at the world.  While you meditate, you will listen to a soft drumbeat, which will help you switch off your busy 'left brain'. When thinking with the ‘right brain’, you can experience aspects of your reality that the analytical mind can't reach. There, you may find new impulses, ideas, vitality and energy for positive transformation of your life.
In this meditation, you will be guided to visualise some place in nature – a garden, a beach, a mountain ridge – and from there you will go on a visualisation journey that might give you new answers. Listening to the drum helps you to stay focused, and you will be guided on every step of your 'journey'.

After the meditation, participants come together in a sharing circle to talk about their experiences and explore how they can apply their new insights to their lives.

Schedule for 2019

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Guided Journey Group

 Where:  North Hanwell (directions upon sign-up)
Time:  Friday evenings, 7.30-ca. 8.45pm
Dates:  16 August, 13 September, 11 October, 15 November, 6 December.
Cost: £15 per evening (you can pre-pay 3 sessions for £40: 10% off).

Private Sessions

Sessions in North Hanwell
£50 per 1 hour session. If you like to work on a specific issue, you can buy 3 sessions for £135 (10% off).

The origins of Drum Journeying

Being able to change our brain waves for visualisation journeys by using a drum beat or another rhythmic impulse is an ancient skill that has been used by shamans and tribal communities all over the world for thousands of years. Nowadays, it is a practice that anyone can enjoy and find valuable, regardless of their religious or spiritual belief.

How Drum Journeying works

Have you ever noticed that you have the best ideas and find new solutions to old problems when you stop thinking too hard and just relax? Drum Journey meditation is one way to make use of this phenomenon. The beat of the drum fosters our ability to stop thinking in a logical way and open ourselves up to a different way of being and perceiving.
Scientifically speaking, participants change their brainwaves from alpha waves (our usual way of thinking) to beta or theta waves (this is how the brain works when we are sleeping or meditating). Drum Journeying is a bit like dreaming – the difference is that we are fully awake and can take an active part in the journey. We can ask questions and state our intention for the journey, and then receive targeted guidance and new vitality.

Jeremy recounts the story of his Drum Journey

The purpose of my meditation was to seek guidance on how I can find more clients for my catering business. When the drum started, I was guided to imagine myself walking in a lovely garden. I was told to look around to see whether I could find a bird or another animal, and sure enough, there was a spotted woodpecker. I introduced myself to the woodpecker and asked him whether he could show me some answers to my question.
He invited me to come and fly with him, and we both took off high into the clouds. Up there, I saw a neon sign, bright with red and yellow colours. Nothing written on it though; it was just a blank board. Woodpecker told me to write my name on it. I did not know how to do this, and I asked woodpecker for help. He plucked one of his feathers and used it as a writing pen. His ink was a drop of blood that had come out from his skin when the feather was plucked. He gave me the feather and told me two write. I felt reluctant and shy to do it. Woodpecker kept encouraging me. Finally, I wrote my name on the neon sign, and it lit up even more and started to turn. Then I heard the call-back signal of the drum, Andrea told us to give our thanks and say our good-byes. Then I went back to the garden and into normal reality.

What did the journey teach me?

I noticed that I had been reluctant to believe in myself before this meditation. Yes, I wanted to put my name ‘out there’, but I was not self-confident enough to really stand out from the crowd and believe in the quality of my offerings. Woodpecker taught me that I had to be more self-confident and really put more of myself - even a ‘drop of blood’ - into this business. This was a real boost for me. I keep imagining the neon sign and I still see it turning and shining up there - a good reminder that I ought to believe in myself.